Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini, OMRI, OMCAwas an Italian Nobel laureate, honored for her work in neurobiology. She was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with colleague Stanley Cohen for the discovery of nerve growth factor. From 2001 until her death, she also served in the Italian Senate as a Senator for Life...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth22 April 1909
CityTurin, Italy
CountryItaly
centuries future toward women
After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.
experience mind
At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.
appreciation atmosphere both cultured decisions enjoyed family filled four head highly husband instilled life love parents reciprocal style taken typical victorian wonderful
The four of us enjoyed a most wonderful family atmosphere filled with love and reciprocal devotion. Both parents were highly cultured and instilled in us their high appreciation of intellectual pursuit. It was, however, a typical Victorian style of life, all decisions being taken by the head of the family, the husband and father.
girl baby
Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.
projects instruments chemicals
The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.
process nobel complexes
The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.
latin father school
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.
nobel persecution ifs
If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.
running cutting men
My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.
past enough
It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future.
mind thanks superiors
At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience- than when i was 20.
years perfection long
It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.
thinking long answers
You've been thinking about something without willing to for a long time...Then, all of a sudden, the problem is opened to you in a flash and you suddenly see the answer.
expression snakes growth
As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of bizarre evolutionary gene expression.